A Vision Of Resurrection Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGDHIJKLMNOBPQR S NTUVNWXNYZAPNXA2B2NC 2NN NPPD2NPPE2DNF2TPI had a dream The habitable earth | A |
Its continents and islands all were bare | B |
Of cities and of forests Naught remained | C |
Of its old aspect and I only knew | D |
As men know things in dreams unknowing how | E |
That this was earth and that all men were dead | F |
On every side I saw the barren land | G |
Even to the distant sky's inclosing blue | D |
Thick pitted all with graves and all the graves | H |
Save one were open not as newly dug | I |
But rather as by some internal force | J |
Riven for egress Tombs of stone were split | K |
And wide agape and in their iron decay | L |
The massive mausoleums stood in halves | M |
With mildewed linen all the ground was white | N |
Discarded shrouds upon memorial stones | O |
Hung without motion in the soulless air | B |
While greatly marveling how this should be | P |
I heard or fancied that I heard a voice | Q |
Low like an angel's delicately strong | R |
And sweet as music | S |
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'Spirit ' it said 'behold | N |
The burial place of universal Man | T |
A million years have rolled away since here | U |
His sheeted multitudes save only some | V |
Whose dark misdeeds required a separate | N |
And individual arraignment rose | W |
To judgment at the trumpet's summoning | X |
And passed into the sky for their award | N |
Leaving behind these perishable things | Y |
Which yet preserved by miracle endure | Z |
Till all are up Then they and all of earth | A |
Rock hearted mountain and storm breasted sea | P |
River and wilderness and sites of dead | N |
And vanished capitals of men shall spring | X |
To flame and naught shall be for evermore | A2 |
When all are risen that wonder will occur | B2 |
'Twas but ten centuries ago the last | N |
But one came forth a soul so black with sin | C2 |
Against whose name so many crimes were set | N |
That only now his trial is at end | N |
But one remains ' | - |
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Straight as the voice was stilled | N |
That single rounded mound cracked lengthliwise | P |
And one came forth in grave clothes For a space | P |
He stood and gazed about him with a smile | D2 |
Superior then laying off his shroud | N |
Disclosed his two attenuated legs | P |
Which like parentheses bent outwardly | P |
As by the weight of saintliness above | E2 |
And so sprang upward and was lost to view | D |
Noting his headstone overthrown I read | N |
'Sacred to memory of George K Fitch | F2 |
Deacon and Editor a holy man | T |
Who fell asleep in Jesus full of years | P |
And blessedness The dead in Christ rise first ' | - |
Ambrose Bierce
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